Re: Newline disappears (not sure if Gnus or Emacs fault)

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From: Sergio Durigan Junior
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:58

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On Wednesday, March 06 2013, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@riseup.net> writes:
>
> Hi Sergio,

Hi Tassilo,

>> The problem: Gnus (or Emacs) is eating some newline characters in
>> messages.  This happens particularly often with hyperlinks, but
>> yesterday it happened inside an inlined patch in a message.
>
> I'd rather say it's the fault of the email client of the mail's sender
> which probably uses "format=flowed".  Have a look at 
>
> ,----[ git-format-patch(1) ]
> | 	By default, Thunderbird will both wrap emails as well as
> | 	flag them as being format=flowed, both of which will make
> | 	the resulting email unusable by git.
> `----
>
> The same applies not just to Thunderbird, but probably to most graphical
> mail clients in use today.  So either the sender should disable that
> somehow, or attach patches as attachment instead of inline.

You are right.  The guy is using mutt, but he enabled the format=flowed
in the message.  That, and also the fact that he hand-edited the patch,
made it impossible to apply cleanly.

Thanks a lot,

-- 
Sergio

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